The Finkbeiner test, named for the science journalist Ann Finkbeiner, is a checklist to help science journalists avoid gender bias in articles about women in science. (Via reddit.com).
It asks writers to avoid describing women scientists in terms of stereotypically feminine traits, such as their family arrangements.
Reading A Letter That's Been Sealed For More Than 300 Years — Without Opening.
(…) to open something is to partially destroy it.
What do we do with the science of terrible men?
It would be awfully convenient, of course, if terrible men were terrible at everything, even mathematics; the building of social science genetics would be easier to raze if it didn’t house other valuable things.
Why is electroshock therapy still a mainstay of psychiatry?
It was a brilliant cure, but we lost the patient.
File under: Germany in a soybean shell.
To Earn His Crown, Germany’s Tofu King Had to Overcome Sausage and the Slammer
To this day, the legal battle continues over whether dairy substitutes made with soy or oat can be called “milk” at all. Until a court battle in 1989, around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the dairy lobby managed to keep soy milk and derivatives such as tofu strictly verboten.
Did you know you can also send trailers, to append metadata after a message body?
The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology.
(…) the economics of processors has changed dramatically, pushing computing into specialized domains that are largely distinct and will provide fewer benefits to each other. Moreover, because this cycle is self-reinforcing, it will perpetuate itself, further fragmenting general purpose computing. As a result, more applications will split off and the rate of improvement of universal processors will further slow.
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LEPIN 16016 Flying Neitherlands (via orf.at).
♬ a toxic clean.
Who the Hell are the Disabled?
Official Government figures stated in 2014 that there are more than 11 million who fall within their definitions, which includes those with mental health issues, diabetes and invisible impairments. We are the largest minority group in the UK, if not the world.
But oh, the disabled are tragic. Or sporty brave. Or embarrassing. They’re ungrateful. They’re a burden. More recent history condemned us as scroungers.